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The company that carries out clean-up work at the Sellafield nuclear site has been fined £700,000 and ordered to pay £72,635 in costs for sending bags of radioactive waste to the Lilyhall landfill site in Workington, Cumbria.

Carlisle Crown Court heard that management and operational failings at Sellafield meant the bags, which contained waste such as plastic, were not sent to a specialist facility that treats and stores low-level radioactive waste. The bags were returned to Sellafield for correct